Murder Collection (page 2)

Assassination attempt on Queen Victoria
Attempted assassination of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert by the eighteen year old Edward Oxford, on Constitution Hill, London

MacLeans assassination attempt on Queen Victoria
Roderick MacLean aims his pistol at Queen Victoria as she passes through Windsor in her carriage but is arrested and spends the rest of the days in Broadmoor Asylum. Date: 2nd March 1882

Edward the Martyr is murdered
King Edward is murdered at Corfe Castle while visiting his stepmother Aelfthryth. Some say the act was committed on her orders

Margaret Nicholson attempts to assassinate the king
The Englishwoman, Margaret Nicholson, attempted to assassinate King George III on 2nd August 1786. She approached the King as he alighted from his carriage at St

Edmund I stabbed by Leofa
Edmund I, King of England from 939, is stabbed to death by Leofa, an exiled thief, while celebrating St Augustines Mass day in Pucklechurch, Gloucestershire Date: 946

Edgar murders Aethelwald
While out hunting, King Edgar of England stabs and kills Aethelwald in revenge for the latters deceit over Aelfthryth. Aethelwald, sent to find out more about Aelfthryth, had described her as plain

German illustration, death of Karl Liebknecht
A German illustration mourning the death of Karl Liebknecht (1871-1919), a left-wing radical who formed the Spartacus League which became the German Communist Party

Karl Eduard Nobiling
Dr. Nobiling, the would-be assassin of Wilhelm I, Emperor of Germany. On the 2nd June 1878, Nobiling shot and wounded Kaiser Wilhelm I but failed to kill him. Date: 1878

Assassination of President Carnot
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Dalton gang, Kansas
The destruction of the Dalton gang in Kansas, America. Five of the notorious and desperate bandits were killed in a battle with Coffeyville

Mr Carter Henry Harrison, Mayor of Chicago
Mayor of Chicago for many years and recently elected for a fifth term, Carter Henry Harrison was murdered in his home by Patrick Eugene Prendergast. Date: 1825-1893

Pierre Simplin, the strangler
Pierre Simplon enters his victims room through the window; she is startled and afraid, as well she might be

Assassination attempt on Jacob Br Scavenius Estrup Assassination attempt on Jacob Br�Scavenius Estrup
Assassination attempt on Jacob Br Scavenius Estrup, a Danish politician who was Council President and Finance Minister from 1875-1894

Assassination attempt on Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia
Assassination attempt by Sergeant Maximilian Joseph Sefeloge on Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia, in Potsdam, Germany. 1850

Ned Kelly kills Police Officer Lonigan
While the Kelly gang were in hiding, the police launched a mission to find them, setting up camp at Stringbark, near where they suspected the gang were staying

TIburcio Vasquez, Mexican bandit in California; he was hanged on 19th March 1875. Date: 19th Century

Charles J. Guiteau, assassin of American President, James A. Garfield, on 2nd July 1881. 1881

Assassination attempt on Alfonso XII of Spain
Assassination attempt by a pastry chef, Otero, on Alfonso XII of Spain, while the King was honeymooning in Madrid. 1879

Oskar Becker, assailant of Wilhelm I, in Baden Baden Date: 14th July 1861

Gustav III of Sweden is killed at a masked ball
Gustav III, king of Sweden, is assassinated while attending a masked ball at the Opera House, by Jakob Johan Anckarstrom. 1792

Assassination of President Garfield by Guiteau
Charles J. Guiteau shoots and kills President, James A. Garfield, on 2nd July 1881. 1881

Sergeant Boston Corbett, killer of President Lincolns killer, John Wilkes Booth. Date: 1865

Assassination attempt on Francesco Crispi
An unsuccessful assassination attempt on the life of the Italian statesman, Francesco Crispi, by the anarchist Lega. 1894

Assassination of Thomas Kouli Kan, Emperor of Persia
The Emperor of Persia was assassinated in his tent by five of his Officers, two of whom he killed, before they could dispatch him. Date: c. 1788

Eugen Schaumann, assassin of General Bobrikov
The Finnish nationalist and nobleman, Eugen Schaumann assassinated the Governor-General Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov on 16th June 1904. Date: 1904

John H. Surratt
John Surratt was accused of being implicated in the attempted kidnap of President Abraham Lincoln, and in the assassination. Date: 1844-1916

Guiseppe Fieschi
The Corsican criminal, Guiseppe Fieschi, would-be assassin of King Louis Philippe of France. Date: 1835

Poster design, I Killed The Count
Poster design for a theatre production by the Station Repertory Company, entitled I Killed The Count, showing at the Station Theatre. A desperate-looking man points a gun at the viewer

Louis Pierre Louvel, assassin of the Duc de Berry
The French assassin, Louis Pierre Louvel, who stabbed and killed Charles Ferdinand, duc de Berry, son of Charles X and second in line to throne, as he left the Opera. Date: 1820

Assassination of Duc de Berry
Charles Ferdinand, duc de Berry, son of Charles X and second in line to throne, is stabbed by Louis Pierre Louvel as he leaves the Opera and dies soon after in a nearby house. Date: 13th February 1820

Pierre Francois Lacenaire
The French poet and assassin, Pierre Francois Lancenaire, who spent much of his life in prison, eventually receiving the death penalty for a double-murder

Assassination attempt on Jules Ferry
Aubertin attempts to assassinate the French politician, Jules Ferry, (1832-1893) at the Chamber of Deputies, Paris. Ferry was later assassinated by an Alsatian fanatic on 10th December 1892

Assassination attempt on King Louis Philippe
Joseph Henris attempts to assassinate the French King, Louis Philippe, at the Tuileries, Paris during a concert of military music. Date: 1846

British Ballad, Lord Thomas and Fair Annet
LORD THOMAS AND FAIR ANNET. British Ballad telling the story of Lord Thomas who is in love with Fair Annet and plans to marry her

British Ballad, Gil Morrice or Child Maurice
GIL MORRICE (CHILD MAURICE) Popular British Ballad. A Lord, on hearing that his Lady is meeting a strange man in the woods

British Ballad, Lord Soulis
LORD SOULIS. British Ballad which tells the story of William de Soulis (died c. 1320), Lord of Liddesdale and Butler of Scotland

Bloody Sunday victims 1920
Some of the victims, British army and ex-army officers, assassinated on the morning of Sunday 21 November by members of the Irish Republican Army in Dublin

Stanfield Hall murder trial
The interior of the court house at Norwich during the trial of James Blomfield Rush (which started on 29th March 1849 and lasted for 6 days)

Scott, alias Sweeney, in an illusion
Scott, alias E. Sweeney, of Ardlamont mystery fame, who disappears every night in Mr Morritts latest illusion. Edward Scott, real name Sweeney

Dorset Street, Spitalfields, East End of London
A view of Dorset Street, Spitalfields, East End of London - sometimes referred to as The Worst Street in London. Women and children sit or stand on the pavements and the road is strewn with rubbish

Murder Down Below
Still waters ran deep....deep enough to hide a killer. Illustration by pin up artist, David Wright of a woman, looking not at all suspicious, with a stole slipping seductively from her shoulders

The Praslin Tragedy
A floor plan and view of the front garden of the Hotel Sebastiani, Paris, where the Duchess of Praslin was found dead in her bedchamber in suspicious circumstances

Murder of General Brea
General Brea, one of the commanders opposing the Paris insurgents, is captured and murdered at Fontainebleau : his body lies in state

Murder Mystery Party
An amusing game of Murder in the Dark. Our picture shows the Inquest, when each member of the party is asked to explain where they were when the murder occurred

Murder of Victor Noir
The shooting of journalist Victor Noir by Pierre Napoleon sparks off popular unrest : the people cheer the National Guard in the Champs Elysees

Murder of Rizzio 1566
David Rizzio, the Italian secretary of Mary Queen of Scots, is murdered by Marys husband Henry and his group of conspirators, who stab him sixty times

Murder of King Edward
King Edward is assasinated (stabbed in the back while he drinks a stirrup cup) at Corfe Castle by the agent of his stepmother Elfthryth. Her son Ethelred becomes the next king

Murder Mystery Games
A group of adults play a murder mystery game. The detective writes notes and interrogates the suspects while the corpse lies on the floor

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